October 26 - What happened on the day I was born?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for October 26
In the headlines today:

1990	CBS founder William S. Paley dies in New York at age 89.
1975	Anwar Sadat becomes the first Egyptian president to visit the United States.
1970	Gary Trudeau's comic strip, Doonesbury, debuts in newspapers across the US.
1968	The Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City.
1967	The Shah of Iran crowns himself king.
1965	The Beatles become Members of the British Empire, receiving their medals from Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
1958	Pan Am flies its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in eight hours, 41 minutes.
1949	US president Harry Truman signs a measure raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour. (photo credit: SoundWorks)
1942	The US aircraft carrier Hornet is sunk in the WWII Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
1902	Women's rights advocate Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies.
1825	The Erie Canal, connecting Lake Erie and New York City (via the Hudson River), opens.
1774	The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1664	The British Marines are organized.
1289	The University of Montpellier (France) is organized when the medical and law schools unite.

Born today:

1978 Mark Barry - singer (BBMak)

1963 Natalie Merchant - singer

1963 Marla Maples - actress, Mrs. Donald Trump

1962 Cary Elwes - actor

1954 Lauren Tewes - actress

1953 Keith Strickland - drummer (The B-52s)

1947 Jaclyn Smith - actress

1946 Pat Sajak - TV host (Wheel of Fortune)

1946 Ivan Reitman - film director

1946 Keith Hopwood - guitarist, singer (Herman's Hermits)

1947 Hillary Rodham Clinton - NY senator, wife of 42nd US president Bill Clinton

1944 Michael Piano - singer (The Sandpipers)

1942 Bob Hoskins - actor

1916 Francois Mitterand - President of France

1914 Jackie Coogan - actor (The Addams Family)

1913 Charlie Barnet - saxophonist

1911 Mahalia Jackson - singer

1894 John Knight - Knight-Ridder newspaper mogul

1874 Abby Rockefeller - cofounder of NY Museum of Modern Art

1854 Charles Post - Post cereals founder

1834 Joseph Hansom - invented the Hansom horse-driven taxi cab

1685 Domenico Scarlatti - composer

Born today? Your sign of the Zodiac is:

Scorpio

(The Scorpion)